Mary Buser, clinical social worker, assistant unit chief in the Mental Health Department on Rikers Island (1995 to 2000), co-founder of the Samaritans of New York suicide prevention hotline and author of Lockdown on Rikers: Shocking Stories of Abuse and Injustice at New York's Notorious Jail (St. Martin's Press, 2015), adds an insider's view to the continuing story of abuses (on all sides) in New York City's jail.
"We doled out antipsychotics to virtually everyone while I was there." -former Rikers Island social worker @BuserMary pic.twitter.com/YCeGhS4lXM
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) September 29, 2015
Ex-Rikers social worker @BuserMary criticizes solitary confinement in her book. "It cannot possibly be the answer." pic.twitter.com/bj5JHrhtzo
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) September 29, 2015